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About
UNESCO
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On 18
December
1925,
the
International
Bureau
of
Education
(IBE)
began
work as
a NGO in
the
service
of
international
educational
development.
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Headquarters:
Place de
Fontenoy,
Paris,
France
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Membership:
195
member
states
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Head:
Irina
Bokova,
Director-General
of
UNESCO
Report
On April 10,
2015 UNESCO
published
the
Education
For All
Global
Monitoring
Report to
evaluate the
progress of
countries on
these goals…
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Annual
Status
of
Education
Report (ASER)
said
that
while
India’s
education
system
succeeded
in
enrolling
many
more
children,
there
were
wide
disparities
in
students’
achievement
of basic
skills
across
the
States,
a
finding
validated
in the
official
National
Achievement
Survey
of grade
3
students
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India
likely
to reach
the EFA
first
goal of
80 pc
enrolment
in
pre-primary
education
by 2015,
has
already
reached
the
second
goal of
universal
primary
enrolment,
and will
fall
just
short of
universal
youth
literacy
by 2015
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The one
measurable
goal
India
will not
reach is
to
reduce
its
adult
illiteracy
rate by
half (it
has
reduced
it by 26
per
cent).
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The
country’s
major
success
has been
in
reaching
gender
parity
for
primary
and
lower
secondary
enrolment,
the only
country
in South
and West
Asia to
do so.
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It has
also
made
progress
towards
improving
the
quality
of
education,
but
major
gaps
remain.
Nearly half
of all
countries
have
achieved
universal
pre-primary,
primary and
lower
secondary
enrolment
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Only 25
per cent
of the
countries
have
reduced
by half
their
levels
of adult
illiteracy,
and
women
continue
to make
up
two-thirds
of the
illiterate.
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Two-thirds
of the
countries
have
also
achieved
gender
parity
at the
primary
level,
but less
than
half at
the
secondary
level.
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The
world
has
advanced
by 2015
beyond
where it
would
have
been if
the
trends
of the
1990s
had
persisted
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A lesson
re-emerging
over the
past 15
years is
that
while
technical
solutions
are
important,
gaining
political
influence
and
traction
is of
even
greater
significance
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In April
2000,
the
governments
of 164
countries
adopted
the
Dakar
Framework
to
deliver
Education
For All
commitments
by 2015
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